- #1
This is a surprisingly good novel. I would have rated it 4 stars, but going to take a star away because of as*hole MC.Pros
- No dense MC
- Realistic portrayal of the Showa period
- Good side characters (they have their own character arc)
- Good loli (no sexual)
- Slice of Life is engaging and peeks into manga, the novel industry, and some politics.
- MC is a pe*vert. He takes pictures of women without their permission.
- MC has no bottom line. This is not shown blatantly, but I feel that if he can get away from r*pe, he would do it.
- In this novel, again and again, he goes to girls who are poor and do not have money even for food, but MC goes and solicits them for s*x, like, "I will give 1000 yen; sleep with me." I don't understand this fetish; if he wants a girl, he could have gone for prostit**es.